Yale E360
JULY 5, 2022
With a growing number of studies demonstrating the importance of large mammals to healthy ecosystems, scientists are proposing concrete plans to reintroduce these animals to the wild. The return of just 20 species to native habitats, they say, could be a boon to biodiversity. Read more on E360 ?.
Union of Concerned Scientists
JULY 3, 2022
The Supreme Court’s decision in the case known as West Virginia et al. v. Environmental Protection Agency et al. is a serious blow to the EPA’s ability to fight climate change—and could have dangerous repercussions beyond this case. The timing of the decision feels especially harsh, as the nation is in the throes of the “ Danger Season ” for hazards such as heat waves, drought, wildfires and hurricanes, all worsened by climate change.
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Environment + Energy Leader
JULY 7, 2022
Redwood Logistics and Cloverly are partnering to help customers gain visibility into freight emissions and offset them with carbon credits in a single platform. The post Redwood and Cloverly Partner to Provide Freight Emissions Visibility and Access to Carbon Credits appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.
Cleannovate
JULY 4, 2022
Everytime we sit down to eat food, we must remember that food scraps have been generated in the process. More often than not, these scraps are disposed in the dustbin or in black trash bags. But what if we choose to see this waste differently? VERMICOMPOSTING. For ages, before the advent of mineral fertilisers, our forefathers utilised a soil creature so effectively in boosting soil fertility.
Speaker: Nikhil Joshi, Founder & President of Snic Solutions
Is your manufacturing operation reaching its efficiency potential? A Manufacturing Execution System (MES) could be the game-changer, helping you reduce waste, cut costs, and lower your carbon footprint. Join Nikhil Joshi, Founder & President of Snic Solutions, in this value-packed webinar as he breaks down how MES can drive operational excellence and sustainability.
Yale E360
JULY 8, 2022
After being driven to the brink of extinction, fin whales, the second-largest creatures on Earth, have returned to their ancestral feeding grounds around the Antarctic Peninsula. Read more on E360 ?.
Circle of Blue
JULY 6, 2022
Lake Powell. Photo © J. Carl Ganter / Circle of Blue. YOUR GLOBAL RUNDOWN. Colorado’s top water official weighs in the responsibility lower Colorado River Basin states have in cutting water use. A new study links childhood diarrheal disease with drought exposure in low-and-middle-income countries. India’s major reservoirs sit at critically low levels even as monsoon rains pummel parts of the country.
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Law and Environment
JULY 5, 2022
Those wondering what states can do to at least partially ameliorate the impacts of West Virginia v. EPA need look no farther than Massachusetts, which issued its Clean Energy and Climate Plan for 2025 and 2030 the same day that the Supreme Court extended its crusade against the modern world by limiting EPA’s authority to regulate in the absence of a clear delegation by Congress.
Yale E360
JULY 6, 2022
Alaska is on pace for a historic fire season, spurred on by warm temperatures, a diminished snowpack, and an apparent uptick in lightning strikes. Fires have ripped through 2 million acres so far this year, roughly 10 times the total area burned in all of 2021. Read more on E360 ?.
Energy & the Law
JULY 5, 2022
Co-author Trevor Lawhorn. Non-operators under the 1989 Model Form JOA have been hoping to drive a stake through the dark heart of Reeder v. Wood County Energy, LLC. Bachtell Enterprises, LLC v. Ankor E&P Holdings Corp might be a start. The question was whether the Article V.A. exculpatory clause exonerated the operator who intentionally passed expenses to non-operators without their consent.
Environment + Energy Leader
JULY 5, 2022
Worley is acquiring Minera Mining Technologies to help improve mining operations and sustainability. The post Worley Acquires Minera to Improve Mining Sustainability appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.
Speaker: Kevin Kai Wong, President of Emergent Energy Solutions
In today's industrial landscape, the pursuit of sustainable energy optimization and decarbonization has become paramount. ♻️ Manufacturing corporations across the U.S. are facing the urgent need to align with decarbonization goals while enhancing efficiency and productivity. Unfortunately, the lack of comprehensive energy data poses a significant challenge for manufacturing managers striving to meet their targets. 📊 Join us for a practical webinar hosted by Kevin Kai Wong of Emergent Ene
Enviromental Defense
JULY 4, 2022
The fight to stop Highway 413 isn’t over – it’s just beginning. . Despite running on a platform to pave over a chunk of the Greenbelt and thousands of acres of prime farmland, the re-elected Ontario government can’t start building Highway 413…yet. That’s because just over a year ago, the Federal Minister of Environment and Climate Change designated Highway 413 under the Impact Assessment Act.
Yale E360
JULY 7, 2022
In a global first, Brazil's supreme court has declared the Paris Climate Agreement a human rights treaty. Within Brazil, the court ruled, the climate pact should supersede national law. Read more on E360 ?.
Physics World
JULY 8, 2022
This edition of the Red Folder looks at some images from two science-related photography contests. Last week the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) announced the winners of its IUPAP 100 Photo Contest. First prize in the “At a glance” category went to Yuya Makino of Madison, Wisconsin, US who was a “winterover” at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station.
Real Climate
JULY 4, 2022
This month’s open thread. Please keep to climate-related issues, stay substantive, no abuse, no repetition, one-comment per day. The post Unforced Variations: July 2022 first appeared on RealClimate.
Speaker: Antoine M. Thompson, Executive Director of the Greater Washington Region Clean Cities Coalition
Diversity, Equity, Justice, and Inclusion (DEJI) policies, programs, and initiatives are critically important as we move forward with public and private sector climate and sustainability goals and plans. Underserved and socially, economically, and racially disadvantaged communities bear the burden of pollution, higher energy costs, limited resources, and limited investments in the clean energy and transportation sectors.
Inside Climate News
JULY 7, 2022
The push to extract materials and food from the oceans at industrial scale menaces vulnerable communities and biodiversity. By Rachel Rodriguez, Bob Berwyn A globe-spanning study published Thursday outlines new, potentially unexpected threats to ocean ecosystems and vulnerable coastal communities within the next five to 10 years that will come on top of the already harmful effects of overfishing, pollution and global warming.
Frontiers
JULY 6, 2022
By Conn Hastings, science writer. Image credit: rtbilder / Shutterstock.com. Honeybees use a sophisticated dance to tell their sisters about the location of nearby flowers. This phenomenon forms the inspiration for a form of robot-robot communication that does not rely on digital networks. A recent study presents a simple technique whereby robots view and interpret each other’s movements or a gesture from a human to communicate a geographical location.
Physics World
JULY 7, 2022
Imaging inflammation: MR images of a brain overlaid with the stick fraction, an MRI measure associated with microglia activation. (Courtesy: Silvia De Santis). Chronic inflammation of the brain is linked to a range of increasingly common degenerative brain diseases, such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. Evidence suggests that neuroinflammation contributes to the progression and worsening of such diseases.
Enviromental Defense
JULY 5, 2022
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENCE, STOP SPRAWL YORK REGION. One third of Council votes against the Plan. Toronto | Traditional territories of the Huron-Wendat, the Anishnaabeg, Haudenosaunee, Chippewas and the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation – After a complex series of last-minute motions and closed-door sessions last Thursday that made it difficult for Councillors – let alone residents – to discern what was being debated, York Region appears to have presented Minister of Municipal Affairs, Steve Cl
Speaker: Laurie Schoeman Director, Climate & Sustainability, Capital
As households and communities across the nation face challenges such as hurricanes, wildfires, drought, extreme heat and cold, and thawing permafrost and flooding, we are increasingly searching for ways to mitigate and prevent climate impacts. During this event, national climate and housing expert Laurie Schoeman will discuss topics including: The two paths for climate action: decarbonization and adaptation.
Environmental News Bits
JULY 6, 2022
by Lisa Sheppard, Prairie Research Institute Prairie Research Institute (PRI) researchers and technicians may not know exactly which hazards they’ll face when they conduct fieldwork to study the natural world. What they do know is that there are plenty of dangers to prepare for as they start another field season. “The safety aspects of being … Continue reading Research fieldwork comes with safety challenges.
Frontiers
JULY 7, 2022
By Mischa Dijkstra, Frontiers science writer. Scientists here study the spectra from G+0.693-0.027, a molecular cloud near the center of the Milky Way. They detect a range of nitriles, key building blocks for RNA, including cyanoallene, propargyl cyanide, cyanopropyne, and possibly cyanoformaldehyde and glycolonitrile, none of which had previously been found in G+0.693-0.027.
Physics World
JULY 4, 2022
An axial Higgs mode has been spotted within the collective quantum excitations of a solid material. Kenneth Burch at Boston College and colleagues in the US and China, discovered the quasiparticle cousin of the Higgs boson in a relatively simple tabletop experiment carried out at room temperature. In 2012, the discovery of the Higgs boson at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider confirmed a prediction made nearly 50 years earlier about the mechanism by which some fundamental particles acquire mass.
Ocean Conservancy
JULY 7, 2022
“Florida and beaches” are like “peanut butter and jelly”—they just go together, a match made in heaven. Between the soft sand, unique seashells, warm waters and fascinating ocean animals, there are so many things to love about Florida beaches. One of the best perks to walking along a Florida shoreline is simple: sea birds. Florida is known as an amazing state for bird watching with a multitude of species that live there, but you don’t have to be a hard knocks bird watcher to catch a glimpse of a
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New Scientist
JULY 6, 2022
Artificial intelligence can transfer artistic styles onto a 3D scene, including turning a bulldozer into the style of Van Gogh’s The Starry Night painting
Inside Climate News
JULY 6, 2022
Targeted grazing could reduce an invasive grass that has fueled an explosion of wildfires and threatens native species. But it’s not a silver bullet. By Emma Foehringer Merchant Cheatgrass first spread across the U.S. West in the 1800s, carried by settlers and in contaminated seed and straw. The spikey, droopy, almost hairy plant spreads like a weed, chokes out native grasses, and, once dry, lights up like kindling.
Physics World
JULY 5, 2022
Alternating magnetic fields can be used to rapidly convert medical waste, such as plastic syringes, into hydrogen-rich gases and high-quality graphite, scientists in China have found. This catalytic technique is more environmentally friendly and less energy intensive than other waste management strategies, the researchers claim. It might also help us dispose of other types of medical waste such as masks and protective clothing.
Ocean Conservancy
JULY 5, 2022
Who lives in a pineapple under the sea? Well, you know the answer, I hope! The Nickelodeon show SpongeBob SquarePants has been adored by many since it first aired in 1999. While the species that inspired some of its characters, such as Mr. Krabs and Patrick Star, may be easy to identify, there are a couple of species in this Nickelodeon classic cartoon that may not be so obvious.
Environmental News Bits
JULY 8, 2022
by Vamsi Ganti, University of California Santa Barbara Throughout history, important cities around the world have flourished along river banks. But rivers can also be destructive forces. They routinely flood, and on rare occasions, they can abruptly shift pathways. These “channel-jumping” events, which are called avulsions, have caused some of the deadliest floods in human … Continue reading Rivers can suddenly change course – scientists used 50 years of satellite images to learn where and
The Energy Law Blog
JULY 5, 2022
On June 23, 2022, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) published a draft guidance on mitigating potential impacts of offshore wind development on commercial and recreational fishing. The final guidance document will set forth required information that lessees must submit to BOEM at each stage of a wind project, i.e., Site Assessment Plan (SAP), Construction and Operations Plan (COP), and General Activities Plan (GAP), including project-specific information on potential impacts on fishing
Physics World
JULY 4, 2022
Everyone knew something big was coming. Students had camped outside CERN ’s designated seminar hall overnight in the hope of grabbing one of the few unreserved seats. Finally, on the morning of 4 July 2012, the suspense was ended. Spokespeople for the large hadron collider’s two general purpose experiments, ATLAS and CMS , confirmed the rumours: both experimental teams had detected a “Higgs-like particle” and the masses were very similar.
National Law Center
JULY 5, 2022
When you walk through a grocery store, you will likely see certain food labeling claims such as “healthy”, “low in sugar”, The post The Legality of Food Labeling Claims: How Advertisements are Regulated appeared first on National Agricultural Law Center.
Environmental News Bits
JULY 5, 2022
by Bradley J. Cardinale, Penn State As spring phases into summer in North America, with trees flowering and birds migrating, nature seems abundant. In fact, however, the Earth is losing animals, birds, reptiles and other living things so fast that some scientists believe the planet is entering the sixth mass extinction in its history. This … Continue reading Should we protect nature for its own sake?
Frontiers
JULY 4, 2022
By Peter Rejcek, science writer. Image: YAKOBCHUK VIACHESLAV/Shutterstock.com. Most people consume too much salt in their diet, leading to high blood pressure and other health issues. Researchers have discovered a novel way to enhance the saltiness, and even potentially the savoriness, of low-sodium food using electrical stimulation of the tongue through a chopstick-shaped utensil.
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